Xian He
Xian He is a Ph.D. candidate at Zhejiang University. He mainly works in the area of epistemology and ethics. He tries to understand belief, love, and emotion within a unified framework. When not doing philosophy, he spends most of his time reading novels, playing video games, and staying with his family. He is also the builder and maintainer of this website.
His interests in this period:
- reasons for belief
- reasons for emotion, and fitting emotion
- epistemic blameworthiness
- incommensurability and incomparability
Biography
2023-24 Visiting Ph.D. Student, University of Zurich
2021- Ph.D. in Philosophy, Zhejiang University
2018-21 M.A. in Philosophy, Sun Yat-Sen University
2014-18 B.A. in Administration, Shandong Normal University
echohe2409@gmail.com
CV
Publications
Epistemic Norm, Epistemic Competence, and Role Obligation (accepted / Chinese)
The Practical Threshold of Epistemic Reasons (accepted / Chinese)
When is Evidence No Longer Prior?, forthcoming, Analytic Philosophy
Paper in Progress
Fitting Love and Uniqueness (under review)
A Weird Consequentialism (manuscript)
When it is OK to Believe Against the Evidence (manuscript)
Talks
The Practical Threshold of Epistemic Reasons
• “Epistemology in China” Conference, Shanghai, China, 09/2023.
• 2023 Beijing International Graduate Conference in Analytic Philosophy, Beijing, China, 01/2023
When it is OK to Believe Against the Evidence
• Normativity: Theoretical and Ethical Approaches HS23, Zurich, Switzerland, 04/2024.
• Workshop: Beyond Epistemic Normativity, Hangzhou, China, 11/2024.
Fitting Love, and Metaphysical Irreplaceability
• Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2023, Salzburg, Austria, 09/2023
• 12th ZJU Contemporary Anglo-american Philosophy Workshop, Hangzhou, China, 03/2023
• 6th Beijing Analytical Philosophy Forum, Beijing, China, 11/2022
The Normativism of Belief and The Constitutive Error Argument (信念的规范主义与错误构成论证)
• 5th “Philosophy & Science” Young Scholar Workshop, Chengdu, China, 04/2023
• 5th ZJU Contemporary Anglo-american Philosophy Workshop, Hangzhou, China, 03/2022